In the post I made in February about the ongoing drum exploit (that we fixed last week), I mentioned that the April update was going to come with a bunch of DLC fixes. A nifty thing the dev team has done for April (aside from setlists) is allowing the game client to patch DLC, so all of these changes will happen automagically when you download the April update -- No need to re-download DLC tracks. These fixes fall under a ton of categories, like:

Bad tempo maps, i.e. the gems aren't on the beat

Solo and harmony lyrics not lining up with their note tubes

Missing solo and harmony lyrics

Keys parts that have been remapped to guitar

Missing characters in the lyrics, especially some foreign characters

Missing drum submixes

Score exploits when songs were looped too close to their beginning

Hopos that were preceeded by a non-hopo

Overlapping fills

Bugs in the graphical display of the vocal hud

Guitar solo authoring and endless solo mode

Pro vocals improv

Fixed a handful of audio files

Camera authoring issues

Light presets, including adding many that were missing

Post processing fixes

Missing venue FX events.

Character animation bugs, including fixing some jerkiness in the limbs

Some of these don't affect scoring, like camera or lighting fixes, but for anything with authoring changes (which affect scoring), we'll be wiping leaderboards for those song/instrument combos. This means that if a guitar track is all that's being fixed, we'll wipe guitar and band scores for that song.

Here's a list of every song that will be affected by wipes, along with the changed instruments. Affected leaderboards are marked with an 'X':

Sorry, we're unable to support tables on the Forums. You can check out the Reddit post with the same information in a searchable table!

More details about setlists and the April patch are coming soon. We’re excited to get this update in your hands! Let me (or Criss, hi!) know if you have any questions. Josh out.

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A nifty thing the dev team has done for April... is allowing the game client to patch DLC, so all of these changes will happen automagically when you download the April update -- No need to re-download DLC tracks.

I love the DEV TEAM! Glad you were able to find a way to do this... very glad.

Getting REALLY tired of the constant Leaderboard wipes. Makes it feel like we're all Beta testers for an unfinished game.

so you would rather keep the scoring exploits that were present in many games, and the charts with problems?

like they are not wiping the leaderboards just for fun, all of these wipes is to fix problems that have been in the series for years

I'm saying that the game feels unfinished if things like this are being fixed six months after launch, rather than before the launch. I'm saying that if chasing good scores is one of the things that motivates you to play the game, establishing a pattern that some or all of those scores will be erased every month seriously undermines that motivation.

@HMXCrisis I saw a lot of delisted songs in the list like by Metallica, Spinal Tap, BSSM era Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc. Does this mean delisted DLC is being made available to those who already owned it on last gen either during March or when the April update comes?

What I'm most happy to see is the return of the missing lighting and venue effects, and camera cuts. Seriously, RB4's presentation felt very dull and stiff due to all of those missing lighting cues and special effects, and a lot of older songs that used those just didn't feel the same when watching RB4 videos of them.

So on reddit @HMXJosh said that there are other edits as well that won't affect leaderboards so they are not in the table

the example posted was in "Bat Country" on pro drums there is a cymbal that is charted to toms during the last chorus. So I guess there is still hope that some of the pro-drum issues will be fixed this update but not mentioned because there would be no scoring changes

So on reddit @HMXJosh said that there are other edits as well that won't affect leaderboards so they are not in the table

the example posted was in "Bat Country" on pro drums there is a cymbal that is charted to toms during the last chorus. So I guess there is still hope that some of the pro-drum issues will be fixed this update but not mentioned because there would be no scoring changes

That means Bodhisattva and Alabama Getaway maybe fixed as changing strum notes to HOPOs mean nothing in terms of score.

the example posted was in "Bat Country" on pro drums there is a cymbal that is charted to toms during the last chorus. So I guess there is still hope that some of the pro-drum issues will be fixed this update but not mentioned because there would be no scoring changes

Hmm, that's interesting. A "cymbal to tom" chart fix would lower the total possible score and would seem to require a song leaderboard wipe, but a "tom to cymbal" fix would increase the total possible score and they could leave the leaderboards intact!

the example posted was in "Bat Country" on pro drums there is a cymbal that is charted to toms during the last chorus. So I guess there is still hope that some of the pro-drum issues will be fixed this update but not mentioned because there would be no scoring changes

Hmm, that's interesting. A "cymbal to tom" chart fix would lower the total possible score and would seem to require a song leaderboard wipe, but a "tom to cymbal" fix would increase the total possible score and they could leave the leaderboards intact!

what? changing a tom to a cymbal does not change how much the note is worth. I am pretty sure no mater what you hit a note on pro drums is worth 30 points

No Bodhisattva guitar chart fix? Wasn't there a problem with the HOPOs in the solo for that song? Not seeing it in the list...

That could also be like the before-mentioned Bat Country fix, since there's no score difference between a hammer-on and a strummed note, so they probably wouldn't have to wipe out the leaderboards for that one either.

the example posted was in "Bat Country" on pro drums there is a cymbal that is charted to toms during the last chorus. So I guess there is still hope that some of the pro-drum issues will be fixed this update but not mentioned because there would be no scoring changes

Hmm, that's interesting. A "cymbal to tom" chart fix would lower the total possible score and would seem to require a song leaderboard wipe, but a "tom to cymbal" fix would increase the total possible score and they could leave the leaderboards intact!

what? changing a tom to a cymbal does not change how much the note is worth. I am pretty sure no mater what you hit a note on pro drums is worth 30 points

You're right, I think it was different in RB3 though (something like 25 for tom, 30 for cymbal).

@HamKet Basically songs with no guitar are having keys added, you will have already seen this in effect for 1 song if you own the RB3 export and have played "Imagine". The same is being applied to songs like "LoveGame" and "I Want to Know What Love Is".

Hmm, that's interesting. A "cymbal to tom" chart fix would lower the total possible score and would seem to require a song leaderboard wipe, but a "tom to cymbal" fix would increase the total possible score and they could leave the leaderboards intact!

the example posted was in "Bat Country" on pro drums there is a cymbal that is charted to toms during the last chorus. So I guess there is still hope that some of the pro-drum issues will be fixed this update but not mentioned because there would be no scoring changes

Hmm, that's interesting. A "cymbal to tom" chart fix would lower the total possible score and would seem to require a song leaderboard wipe, but a "tom to cymbal" fix would increase the total possible score and they could leave the leaderboards intact!

what? changing a tom to a cymbal does not change how much the note is worth. I am pretty sure no mater what you hit a note on pro drums is worth 30 points

You're right, I think it was different in RB3 though (something like 25 for tom, 30 for cymbal).

@HamKet Basically songs with no guitar are having keys added, you will have already seen this in effect for 1 song if you own the RB3 export and have played "Imagine". The same is being applied to songs like "LoveGame" and "I Want to Know What Love Is".

What about songs where keys are much more prevalent, and guitar is just along for the ride? I'm thinking a few Queen songs might apply..